Larger Education Discount on Low-end Macbook

I was looking at the Store site (US) and had my student discount set and noticed that it has Macbooks listed at starting at $999, and it use to be $1049 if I remember correctly. I know the iBooks were $999 until the Intel switch happened. The other prices for the other Macbook versions seem to have the same discount though. I was glad to they're giving $100 off on the lowest end version like they use to have since I'm in the market for one.

Can anyone confirm what I noticed? I admit I may be wrong, but pretty sure about this.

This appears to be part of the push by Apple to get soon-to-be graduates to buy new hardware before they graduate. The Education website seems to stressing the point that if you're a student, once you graduate, the discount is gone for you.

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